Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.0

3.0 CLE (Non-Substantive)

Join seasoned paralegal Linda McGrath-Cruz as she takes you on a guided tour through Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.0, providing hands on instruction on all the features that will make you stand out as the superstar that you are!! She uses Adobe Acrobat as her primary software tool to handle her day to day workload and knows better than anyone the insider tips and tricks that will make your life easier.

No boring slides here, this three hour class is a fully interactive tour packed with practical examples giving real life uses that YOU can implement immediately.

Here are some of the topics that we will cover:

  • Learn about menus, toolbars and the workspace
  • Creating PDFs
  • Single PDF vs. PDF Portfolio
  • OCR your PDF
  • Adding, extracting, replacing and deleting pages
  • Cropping and rotating pages
  • Bookmarks
  • Watermarks
  • Headers and Footers
  • Editing and commenting tools including typewriter, highlighter and text boxes
  • Attaching non-PDF documents in native format within a PDF
  • Reduce the size of your PDF
  • Split your PDF by size, page count or bookmarks
  • Password protect your PDF
  • Viewing and removing metadata
Linda wrote a Quick Tips guide for Adobe Acrobat which was published in the April 2015 newsletter of IPE, the Institute for Paralegal Education. You can click here to view it.

Additionally, Linda was a featured presenter at The Tech Savvy Paralegal, the Spring 2014 seminar of the Broward Chapter, Paralegal Association of Florida, during which she presented an abbreviated 1.5 hour version of this more comprehensive 3.0 hour course.

This is an on-demand course presented online for your convenience – no traffic, no parking, no hassle! You will immediate access to the course which you can access at your convenience from any computer or mobile device at any time at YOUR convenience.

Meet Your Speaker

Linda McGrath-Cruz is a premises liability paralegal in the Risk Management department of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Inc. Linda has worked as a paralegal in the area of products liability, wrongful death, medical malpractice and premises liability defense since 1997 and specializes in discovery and trial practice. She is a NALA Certified Paralegal holding ACPs in five practice areas, is a Florida Registered Paralegal and in 2017, she obtained her Masters in Paralegal Studies. You can learn more about Linda on her website: http://miamifrp.com/about-linda/

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Continuing Legal Education Credits (CLE)

NALA: This seminar is approved by the Certifying Board of the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) for three (3) hours of non-substantive continuing legal education credit required to maintain the CP or CLA credential.

FRP: As approved by NALA, this seminar meets the requirements under Rule 20-6.1 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar for three (3) hours of non-substantive continuing legal education credit required to maintain the FRP credential.

Please note: Topics such as law office management, computer training, and other law-related topics are considered by NALA to be under the non-substantive category, which is limited to 10 hours per five-year certification period.

The CLE Credits from this program are pre-approved by NALA and can be used for your CLE requirements with any other associations which accept credits that hold NALA's approval. A certificate of completion is awarded upon completion of all classes within this program. It is the students responsibility to ensure NALA approved credits will be accepted. If you aren't sure, please e-mail [email protected] for assistance.

NFPA accepts substantive CLE hours bearing NALA accreditation.